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Did illegals misusing SSNs earn more on average than U.S. women?

By Terence Jeffrey
Published April 30, 2014 4:00am ET
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Did illegals misusing SSNs earn more on average than U.S. women?
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If you simultaneously accept estimates published by the Census Bureau and the Chief Actuary of Social Security, then illegal aliens who misused Social Security numbers to work illegally in the United States in 2010 earned more on average than American women did.

The Office of the Chief Actuary published an analysis in April 2013 entitled, “Effects of Unauthorized Immigration on the Actuarial Status of the Social Security Trust Funds.” It included this question and answer:

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